Wide Open Spaces Of Internet Speech Part Of Double Edged Sword
Preface To ANN’s Fourth Audio Interview With APD’s Police Chief
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In this fourth in-depth, unrehearsed and unscripted audio interview with Alameda Police Chief Nishant Joshi, ANN explores the role of social media as a tool for APD to use for messaging the community to “push out” desired information, and the flip side of social media with respect to its power to rapidly spread inaccurate, exaggerated or flawed second and third hand information which many are apt to take at face value.
The interview explores what those who use or rely on various social media platforms can do to help APD by providing information that may be of use to them, including but not limited to self gathered photo or video products, that giving police leads to pursue in their mission of providing public safety, and how “maintaining the integrity of the investigation” and protecting victim’s rights play a major role APD’S decision making as to what to tell t and what not to tell the public.
It also details the limits of APD’s “controlled” messaging outreach, and how it handles the problem of how quickly misinformation and lies can take hold and influence public perceptions and how people can better tell fact from falsehood on social media sites.
Joshi specifies the kinds of information APD chooses to include public notification messages and also explains why, to the frustration of many people’s inherent curiosity , they intentionally leave out information, sometimes providing only minimal, skeletal details, notably the 9/7 Press Release on the horrific murder involving a body bag fished out of the estuary waters under the Harbor Bay Island (San Leandro Channel) Bridge. And there is much more, as you will hear.
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